Summer has arrived! Here are my monthly dozen shots from walks to Lake St. Clair. I’ve never been one for flower photos, but they’re hard to avoid :)

Lots of deep thinking as I close out the second quarter of my aliveness experiment. The big question is no longer What does aliveness feel like? but What kinds of relational ecologies allow life force to circulate and flourish?

Lake Tahoe Edition! Gorgeous, fascinating, incredibly diverse. So hard to choose just a dozen pics, but these are for sure my favs.

No insights this month - just enjoying the change of seasons.

My task is not to choose one over the other, but to allow both to inform how I move forward—without collapsing into their shadows. To stand fully in myself, and still remain in contact. This is the work.

Reflections on my “experiment” at the end of the first quarter - full of unresolved tensions, new questions, and a fundamental shift in my orientation toward aliveness.

Insight after this third month of documenting walks to the lake: When you follow the same route every day, it can be a challenge to see things differently. But if you just take a few steps off the well-worn path …

A personal / political essay on what Audre Lorde’s essay means to me and why it matters so much now.

Two nerdy frameworks for studying “aliveness”… and thoughts on how structure can actually get in the way.

A dozen photos from walks to Lake St. Clair — my small ritual of attention and appreciation.

A walk to the lake prompted a reflection on the experience of edges: visual, emotional, & experiential.

For research nerds - my framework for this inquiry.

January Nature Report - winter walks to the lake.

New Year’s Day Ritual - sending off 2025 residue into the Detroit River.

This is me, getting started …